CVE-2010-3260

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-04-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

oxf/xml/xerces/XercesSAXParserFactoryImpl.java in the xforms-server component in the XForms service in Orbeon Forms before 3.9 does not properly restrict DTDs in Ajax requests, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or send HTTP requests to intranet servers via an entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an "XML injection" issue.

Affected products

Orbeon Forms: through 3.8.1; 1.5, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.5, 2.6 (+7)

References

http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/release-notes/39
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47362
http://www.stratsec.net/Research/Advisories/Orbeon-Forms-XML-Entity-Dereferencing-%28SS-2011-004
https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/commit/aba6681660f65af7f1676434da68c10298c30200
http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/release-notes/39
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47362
http://www.stratsec.net/Research/Advisories/Orbeon-Forms-XML-Entity-Dereferencing-%28SS-2011-004
https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/commit/aba6681660f65af7f1676434da68c10298c30200

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